See… this is good thinking. The problem with most alt-history stuff is they make narcissistic presumptions. You're right - the winner of the Civil War winning is ultimately Latin America. A split US doesn't have the juice to dominate them forever. Also, without US intervention, perhaps WWI ends differently -…

And yes, I'd love to hear the anime recs.

Ha. I think it's funny how there are some really great works with weird… culturally specific weirdness… like I can't watch Gone with the Wind because I think it's hatefully sexist and racist. But if I was from another country or time period, I might see the aesthetic virtues and some minor value in its sense of…

I read Now it Can Be Told based on the podcast. I also ordered the Zimmerman Telegram but I have not read it yet (though I have started).

Yup - I listened to Blueprint for Armageddon as well!

Yeah. I recently heard an amazing podcast covering WWI and then read about it. I now realize that my teachers never taught it too me because they didn't want to put in the effort - it's complex and fascinating. The Zimmerman Telegram would be a good movie on its own (and US themed, so we'd care!)

It's for fucks who think Rommel was somehow ennobled. Fight for a morally bankrupt state, go down with the crew. And if that's a finger pointing back at me, I'll live with it.

YES. There's actual, interesting history that we've never covered. Where's my movie on the Taiping Rebellion? Or where's my movie on the Reconstruction? Or the Sino-Japanese War? Or some great stuff not about war?

It's pretty weird to see this in terms of gender. I would think that any woman or even genderqueer person living with what Lee lived with would shut down, entirely. It's not toxic masculinity - it's, holy shit that's the most awful thing I could think of living with.

Do you mean Taystee, Piper, Red, etc? I think they were too freaked out to think about it.

Both movies are awful. This is a conceptually flawed discussion. Two boring, bad movies that contributed to John Travolta being famous.

I assume you're referring to the scene where they kill the prostitute?

Agreed. They're perceived that way because leftwingers have a more complex attitude(i.e., willing to be critical) about America and its military. Republicans generally think the US is perfect and its military is better, unless a Democrat is in charge in which case it's worse than Satan moving into San Francisco.

For a VP who spent time in prison, that's cold, dude.

"What did Ivanka do [to earn the weird admiration of quasi-centrist people, including an alarming number of college-educated women]?"

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Tough on crime is ALSO code for "tough on Hispanic people"! And the war on drugs has ALSO ravaged a lot of foreign countries!

Especially because making felons out of black people is a key method of voter suppression!

I thought that was a life-sized model of DJT's penis!

Now, you have me motivated. I will beat this joke!

They also claim to be patriots, but somehow let the whole Iran Contra thing slide. And the whole "making up a false case for a war that killed thousands." You might say they're worthless sacks of shit.